'Is anyone taking bets on an opening date for the M54 link road?' - Your Letters: July 16

An article in the Star suggested a timetable for completion of M54 link road will be announced "by next year". 

Ha! Ha! and three times Ha! Is anyone taking bets on an opening date for this link road? Have all the antis and nimbys had their say? Has every avenue of appeal been explored and have the big guns, lefty KCs, been deployed? As a 16 year old gofer for a company of surveyors I was working in the fields around what is now Junction 2 of the M54. That was spring/summer of 1969. The Telford end was opened in 1975 and the connecting end, joining the M6 southbound, was opened in 1983.

I'm very nearly 73 and if I live long enough to receive a telegram from King William V, I might just see this link road completed.

Trevor Howard, Wolverhampton

DIFFERENT RULES FOR CELEBRITIES?

Is there anyone else fed up to the back teeth with so called celebrities who appear to have special dispensation regarding justice? I refer to the latest speeding offence of a certain S Coogan, clocked at 97 mph in a 70 limit. Having already acquired six points in his licence for a previous speeding offence, he had the gall to use the same mitigation excuse of being unable to complete filming for the second time if banned.

Now most intelligent people with six points would take great pains to adhere to all speed limits, but obviously Mr Coogan's essential work absolves him from such an arduous to cerebral calculation with the result that he can carry on his merry way with a paltry fine which would be loose change to him. Yet another example of two tier application of the law.

W I Huxley, Shrewsbury

TORTURE TO DRIVE ON TOWN ROADS

What a torture it is to drive in and out of Stafford these days. We wait years for a pothole to be filled and now - all at the same time- we have significant road works on almost every major access route and blockages elsewhere as drivers/victims try to escape the lengthy queues. 

After a journey of six miles on Friday last my wife was convinced I’d grown a beard in the time it took for me to return home. Who coordinates this chaos? Marquis de Sade?

Richard Westwood, Stafford

MOBILES BAN FOR MPs IS A MUST

How laudable it is to ban mobile telephones from schools. Perhaps our MPs should lead by example.

Andy Chetwood, Dawley

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